Frances Ryan FRSL is a British journalist, author, and activist for people with disabilities.
11 Facts About Frances Ryan
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Frances Ryan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Frances Ryan has a PhD in politics from the University of Nottingham.
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Frances Ryan is a journalist, author, and activist for disabled people.
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Frances Ryan began writing about disability in 2012 and has written the Hardworking Britain column for The Guardian.
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Frances Ryan has worked as a political researcher at the University of Nottingham.
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The book inspired the BBC drama Hen Night, which Frances Ryan created with Vici Wreford-Sinnott.
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Frances Ryan argued that many disabled people require extra electricity for medical equipment or extra heat.
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In 2015 Frances Ryan was awarded the Politics Best Thesis Prize from the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.
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Frances Ryan won the Royal National Institute of Blind People media impact award in 2019.
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Frances Ryan was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022, due in combination to her authorship of Crippled and her writing for The Guardian.